Quotes on Men

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

One man with courage is a majority.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

In the sphere of religion, as in other spheres, the things about which men are agreed are apt to be the things that are least worth holding; the really important things are the things about which men will fight.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.